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My afternoon in Hungerford began with a 3-mile walk north from the station to the hamlet of Hungerford Newtown where a new Good Beer Guide 2026 entry awaited.There was a pleasant footpath to take me most of the way, starting with braving...
Recently I have been thinking about the fact that I really haven’t seen any rainbows this summer; therefore, I haven’t posted any. The timing of the storms hasn’t been right for one and stuff like that. I actually had thought of it...
“the produce will kill us.”buy fresh; localfarmers welcome yourpresence… they’re feedingyou what’s best for you. over 10K cases of cyclosporiasis; 2 deaths, included… fruits andvegetables can’t catcha break. at this point, a bag ofLays...
You can either self-host the service, in many different ways, or there is also an official online instance you can use. The link to that instance is on the GitHub project page at the link below. See https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
So there was a modest puff of articles last month about astronomers discovering “the edge of the galaxy”. They were referencing this recent paper, which… doesn’t really say that. But it’s an interesting paper anyway, so let’s discuss.As...
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 17, § 191 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): No ancient German literature, Nibelungs and other such poets of the Middle Ages should be taught in...
A team of AI and sociology researchers at Renmin University of China (RUC) recently interviewed 92 residents of a Beijing urban community for two hours each, capturing migration stories, marriages, career turns, grievances about...
I am trying something a little different with this episode. I am heading back to 1977 to take a look at the original titles for the Atari VCS. I have been a lifelong Atari fan and collector and while my top games are not from the first...
Early last week I reached 8200 followers on Bluesky. I set that number as a goal because it’s half of what my follower number on Twitter has eroded down to after years of shadowbanning, follower capping, and other sleazy tactics intended...
Back in May, Pushkin Vertigo released their eighth Kosuke Kindaichi novel, Yoru aruku (She Walks at Night, 1948), written by the patriarch of the Japanese honkaku mystery novel, Seishi Yokomizo – translated into English by Jesse...
The Rúin is a dark, suspenseful debut set in Galway, first in a series. It follows Detective Cormac Reilly as he relocates from Dublin with his girlfriend, and (somewhat mysteriously) is treated with hostility by his new police...
On layover in AMS on way to Porto!
Bruce Schneier: At work, if your job is to move a bunch of heavy things from one side of the room to another, you should use whatever assistive tech you have on hand: a wagon, a forklift … even an AI-powered robot. But at the gym, it...
Imagine you’re the guest on some kind of frenetic, software-engineering-themed game show. The host is constantly flipping over new cards with questions that you have to answer as fast as possible: Is this adjustment to the database...